Refrigerating apparatus



Jan. 3, 1933. l T. c. wHlfTEHEAD 1,393,345

REFRIGERATING APPARATUS Filed 0017. 14. 1929 ,www1/1MM ATTORNEY-3 INVENTR Patented Jan. 3, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE THOIAS C. WHITEHEAD, 0F DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR, BY IESNE ASSIGNMENTS, T0 KEIVINATOB CORPORATION, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION 0I IIQHIGAN BEFBIGERATING APPARATUS Application led October I1.4, 1829. Serial No. 399,537.

This invention relates generally to cabinets for refrigerating apparatus.

One of the essential objects of the invention is to provide a refrigerator cabinet in which the ice tray compartment opens outwardly adjacent and is adapted to be closed by the main or food compartment door of the cabinet.

Another object is to provide a gasket that surrounds the tray compartment opening for sealing engagement with the food compartment door and that covers and conceals the joint between the tray compartment and a cooling unit front piece.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combinations and arrangements of parts that will be hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a cabinet embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view takenon the line 2-2 of Figure 1;

Figure 3 is a sectional view taken onithe line 3--3 of Figure 2;

Figure 4 is an enlarged fragmentary vertical sectional view through the food compartment door and freezing unit.

Referring now to the drawing, 1 is a cabinet designed for refrigerating apparatus and having vertically spaced machine and food compartments A and B respectively opening outwardly through the front wall 2 of the cabinet and provided with suitable doors 3 and 4 respectively. Preferably the machine compartment A contains the compressor, motor, condenser, fan and, in some instances,

the expansion valve (not shown) of a re frigerating apparatus, and receives air from the atmosphere through suitable louvers 5 in the door 3, while the food compartment B contains the cooling unit 6 and is eiciently sealed by a gasket 7 on the front face of the cabinet engageable by the door 4.

Preferably the cooling unit 6 is suspended by-hangers 8 and 9 from the top wall 10 of the cabinet and comprises a tray compart- 4ment 11, layer 12 of insulation material, and

refrigerant expansion coils 13. As shown, the ice tray compartment 11 opens outwardly adjacent and is normally closed by the food compartment door 4. Preferably this compartment 11 is provided at its forward end with a marginal flange 15 that projects laterally therefrom in substantially parallel relation to the door 4 and serves as an attaching flange for va cooling unit front piece I6. (This front piece 16 is covered in a separate application.) Preferabl adjacent edges 17 and 18 respectively of t e front. piece and flange are secured together and the joint therebetween is covered by a gasket 19. As

illustrated, this gasket 19 is preferably conu structed of resilient material such as rubber, is tubular in cross section, is cemented in place and is adapted to be engaged by the door 4 when closed to seal the tray compartment 11. Thus a neat assembly is rovded and the ice tray compartment is eectively sealed when the door 4 is closed.

While it is believed that from the foregoing description the nature and advantages of the invention will be readily apparent, I desire to have it understood that I do not limit myself to what is 'herein shown and described and that such changes ma be resorted to when desired as fall within t e scope of what` is claimed.

What I claim as my invention is:

1. In a refrigerating cabinet, a compartment, a door for the compartment, a cooling unit within the compartment and having an ice tray vchamber opening outwardly adjacent the door and having a laterally extending flange, a front piece for the cooling unit secured to the flange of said tray chamber, and means covering the joint between the front piece and the laterally extending flange of the tray chamber and establishing a seal between the tray chamber and door when the latter is closed. y

2. In combination, an ice tray compartment having an open forward end and 'provided at said end with a marginal laterally extending flange, a front piece for said compartment comprising a plate having an openngireceiving the flange aforesaid, the edges of sald opening and the edges of said flange longitudinally of and overlapping said edges 5 so as to constitute a substantially rectangular-shaped gasket for engagement with a refrigerator cabinet door.

In testimony' whereof I aix my signature.

THOMAS C. WHITEHEAD.

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